Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: The lawyer for an NYPD officer accused of assaulting an Apple Store customer says his client hardly punched him. WNYC’s Samantha Max was in the courtroom for the start of the officer’s criminal trial on Tuesday. Also, tenant activists say a nearly two-month-long strike by staff at the nonprofit legal services group Mobilization For Justice is straining the city’s eviction defense program.